Help with hops for APA

[gregkeller]

Trying to lock in a hopping schedule for an american pale ale i'm brewing on sunday. It's a pretty basic grain bill (based pretty much on Jamil's recipe in Brewing Classic Styles)

I have the following hops on hand:

3 oz of the following:
Warrior
Columbus
Willamette
Galena
Nugget

2.5 oz Summit
1.5 oz Tradition
.5 oz Citra

I was planning on using warrior or summit for bittering, but after that had no idea. I could probably get to whole foods to pick up some other flavor aroma hops, but would much rather use stuff i've got on hand.

My goal is to make a solid example of something pretty true to the APA style. OG is gonna be around 1.055. Maybe summit and citra for aroma and flavor? or is summit too high in AA?

 

[Holter]

First off, they sell hops at your whole foods?

With the hops you have I would do a 60, 30, 5 schedule.

60 would be warrior, nugget, columbus or even summit. 25 IBUs
30 would be Columbus 5-10 IBUs
5 would be the Citra.

Ideally you would want to have some dry hops for a pale, but not too much. I've found that even a little Citra at the end of a boil goes a long way. You could also scrap the last addition and make it a dry hop of .5oz of Citra and .5 oz of Columbus. Columbus can be a bit garlicky on its own, but it works well when it's layered with other hops.

Good luck.

 

[otis34]

I make a pale ale with Summit and Palisade that is one of my favorites.

This is what I would do
30IBU
Summit for Bittering 60min
.5 oz of Citra, Columbus, and Summit for 10min

 

[gregkeller]

First off, they sell hops at your whole foods?

With the hops you have I would do a 60, 30, 5 schedule.

60 would be warrior, nugget, columbus or even summit. 25 IBUs
30 would be Columbus 5-10 IBUs
5 would be the Citra.

Ideally you would want to have some dry hops for a pale, but not too much. I've found that even a little Citra at the end of a boil goes a long way. You could also scrap the last addition and make it a dry hop of .5oz of Citra and .5 oz of Columbus. Columbus can be a bit garlicky on its own, but it works well when it's layered with other hops.

Good luck.

Yeah, about a month ago my whole foods in Paramus NJ set up a little section by their beers with homebrew stuff. Not a lot, but your basic stuff. Enough to get me through a brewday if i forgot something in an internet order.